Mainly Norfolk: English
Folk and Other Good Music

Rainbow over the Hill

[Richard Thompson]

Ashley Hutchings was fortunate enough to have a demo tape of
Richard Thompson songs written and recorded towards the end of 1972.
This tape included
Time to Ring Some Changes
and
Rainbow over the Hill.
Both songs were recorded during the
Rise Up Like the Sun
recording sessions in Chipping Norton in July 1978 with Martin Carthy and
Andy Fairweather-Low singing on the first recording and Linda Thompson on the
second. Only
Time to Ring Some Changes
found its way on the original LP as
Rainbow over the Hill
was intended for a never released single and
had to wait until the CD re-release in 1992.
It was also included in 2005 on the Ashley Hutchings anthology
Burning Bright.